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Airbnb's summer release made one thing unmistakable: the company is no longer content selling just stays and quirky local experiences, and its expansion into rental cars, grocery delivery, mainstream landmark tours, and a bigger hotels push puts it on a direct collision course with
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Today Google is launching its newest Gemini models. Gemini 3.6 Flash is described by the company as its "workhorse model that delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance". It's supposed to be more efficient and better quality than its predecessor. Google boasts that customers "have found it particularly capable at multimodal tasks like document parsing, chart and data analysis, and report drafting". Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is "designed for both... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, check out our story from earlier today about Mercor. My colleague Cory and I reported that Mercor generated $614 million in gross revenue in the first half of this year, overwhelmingly from AI foundation model customers. That concentration highlights the risk to Mercor’s business if any of the big AI firms, which include OpenAI and Anthropic, switch to a rival.Of course, Mercor’s co-founders are... Read more ›
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For companies in the life sciences industry, medical communications is a core pillar for sharing clinical trial updates and connecting with peers. Because these materials require strict accuracy and academic rigor, biopharma companies have historically relied on specialized external agencies. This traditional approach guarantees expert messaging but often results in slow turnaround times and high ... Read more ›
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French startup Celeste Ecoflyers is developing an inflatable drone capable of 10-hour flights, a 500-mile range, and compact transport inside cars. Read more ›
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Adam Candeub authored a Project 2025 chapter calling for a sweeping shake-up of US competition enforcement Read more ›
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It’s “the most car-like Range Rover ever created,” but will this all-electric grand tourer spoil Jaguar’s Type 01 party? Read more ›
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Airbus is moving 70 critical applications from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway as part of a broader digital sovereignty push to keep sensitive data "under European control." Eventually, the migration will cover 900 applications, including ERP, CRM, manufacturing execution, and product lifecycle management systems. Airbus says it will, however, continue using U.S. providers for less sensitive workloads. "We do not intend to move away from all non European solutions;... Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack. Read more ›
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The French streaming site said that more than half of new music being uploaded comes from AI. Read more ›
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Storing your chainsaw properly is essential to its longevity. One of the big questions, though, is whether you should do so with or without gas. Read more ›
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Cyclosporiasis symptoms include watery diarrhea. A US map shows Michigan has the most known cases to date. Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce has been recalled in 27 states. Read more ›
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Meta Platforms’ internal incubator for AI-powered products and tools is developing a version of the OpenRouter service that would help cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models. The incubator, called AAI Labs, is part of Meta’s Applied AI Engineering team, which Meta set up in March and allows employees to pitch AI-powered products and services for internal use—and possibly later release them to the public. Once a... Read more ›
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Only Samsung currently makes its own CPUs, SSDs, and DRAM, but Huawei may be quietly building its own alternative. Read more ›
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A pharmaceutical empire worth half a trillion dollars cannot be bought, sold, or truly owned—and that structural oddity may be the only thing protecting it from becoming something far more dangerous. Read more ›
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Accor has been in India for two decades but has been slow to gain traction. Now it's focused on expansion and building out the structure to support the growth. Read more ›
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Travel’s AI investment is concentrated in office work while its demographic labor crisis is concentrated on the front line; the jobs aging fastest remain stubbornly physical. Read more ›
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The CCO-to-CEO pipeline is hardening into a template, boards are dressing exits as retirements, and high-growth markets are importing their turnaround CEOs. One year of moves, mapped by Skift Exec Search. Read more ›
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Minor Hotels didn’t wait out the Iran war in the Gulf. It grew in Oman and Africa instead. Read more ›
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Trading below your own bricks is an open invitation for financial interventions. For PPHE, Whitbread, and Meliá, the question is whether they're targets after Scandic's Dalata deal. Read more ›
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United is betting that it will continue to see high travel demand in the second half of 2026 as it stares down at an additional $6 billion in fuel costs. Read more ›
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The timeshare secret runs best on people who already said yes. So when it gets harder to land first-time buyers, buy someone else's customers. Read more ›
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The airline's frequent flyer program was built to reward spending. JetBlue is using it as a pipeline to finance spending — and letting customers earn points for the privilege of paying interest. Read more ›
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By absorbing Rail Europe, a 5-million-ticket rail seller with 90-plus years of operator ties, Omio is consolidating one of travel's most fragmented, hard-to-book corners — and laying groundwork for when AI agents book trips, not just suggest them. Read more ›
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Distribution is up for grabs, AI is in the core systems, capital has gotten careful, and loyalty is being redefined. Skift Global Forum is where travel decides what to do about it. Read more ›
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